Field Guide 2011

Field guide 2011 is currently at print stage with plans to have it posted to all registered practitioners in the coming weeks.


You will recall the comprehensive consultation exercise carried out earlier this year following distribution of the draft version to all registrants. In excess of six hundred practitioners participated in the survey by submitting feedback through an online survey, the results of which we reported on in the summer edition of the Voice. This feedback was analysed and recommendations for improvement incorporated into the final edition where appropriate.

With durability being a primary consideration among practitioners, this final edition is being printed on what is commonly-called ‘never tear’ paper. This is high-density Polyethylene film which is very durable, almost completely tear-proof, and resistant to most fluids and chemicals. Field guide 2011 runs to 126 pages and is designed to fit uniform / shirt pockets. The colour-coded solid tabs distinguishing each section adds to it’s durability and the blank ‘notes’ pages dispersed throughout will facilitate practitioners in jotting down their own specific information where needed. 		   The robust spiro-bound binding also adds to its’ durability.



Many thanks to all of you who took the time to share your thoughts and comments with us. Your efforts have made this publication truly worthy of the title Field Guide 2011 for Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Practitioners.

You should receive your complementary copy by post no later than mid-December.
Email info@phecc.ie if you think your postal details need to be updated.






Speakers

Dr Maura Pidgeon,
Chief Executive Officer,
An Bord Altranais,
Ireland.

Dr Yvonne McEwan,
Senior Official Historian to the 
British Army Nursing Services
University of Edinburgh,
UK.

Lt. Co. Ollie Barbour,
Director Personnel Services,
Irish Defence Forces.

Captain Sara Ecclestone,
United States Army Medical Corps, 
USA.

Dr Kieran O’Connor,
Senior Medical Officer,
Department of Public 
Health, HSE South.

Professor Dianne Cooney Miner & Professor 
Mary Collins, Wegmans School of Nursing, St 
John Fisher College, Rochester, USA.

Dr. Mark Doyle, Consultant in Emergency 
Medicine, Waterford Regional Hospital & 
Deputy Medical Director of the National 
Ambulance Service
Ireland.

Ms Emily Lockwood Advanced Nurse 
Practitioner, WRH & Ms Karen Brennan, 
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, STGH, Ireland

Professor Gerard Bury, Centre for Immediate 
Care Services, UCD Ireland.

Dr. Gerard McCarthy, Consultant in Emergency 
Medicine, Cork University Hospital, Ireland.

The aim of this one day conference will be to explore what Irish emergency planning and health care professionals can learn from past experiences of delivering health care in areas of conflict and disaster, both national and international, to better inform domestic responses when dealing with the victims of conflict and crisis in the future, such as air disasters and the recent flooding.

International and National Experts will talk on subjects including three thousand years of military nursing; critical incident stress management; combat casualty care; lessons learned on emergency planning when dealing with natural disasters; emergency planning for disaster management in Ire-land; emergency response in Ireland - the role of advanced paramedics and what we have learned from the Cork air disaster.

Date: Friday 9th December 2011 Venue: O’Connell Bianconi Building, Cork Road Campus, Waterford Institute of Technology.

Registration: at 8.30 am - Conference free of charge
Light refreshments will be provided.

For Bookings: Ms Breda Walsh, Departmental Secretary, Department of Nursing. 
Tel: 051 845567 / Email bawalsh@wit.ie (Booking is essential)